Published November 2, 2019

Chimney Dust Alert System

Send SMS alert to the mobile when dust level increases in the chimney filter.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Bolt IoT Bolt WiFi Module

Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)

Arduino UNO

Jumper wires (generic)

Software apps and online services

Bolt IoT Bolt Cloud

Arduino IDE

Story

In the thermal power plant, it is necessary to check and to clean the chimney filter in a regular time interval as per the deposition of dust in the chimney. To maintain the pollution factor (as per the guideline by the pollution control board) in the exhaust someone have to monitor at the filter system all the time. So here comes a need of a manpower as a constant operator. The work of the operator is to check the dust level of the filter all the time and when he founds that the dust level has exceeded, his work is to clean the filter. As we see the operator work is only to clean the filter. So the rest time of the operator goes in monitoring the filter system.

To avoid the loss of time and manpower here comes the use of Bolt-IoT WIFI module. It's essentially a setup which uses the popular Ultrasonic Sensor (HC-SR04), the Bolt Wi-Fi module, and an Arduino Uno to measure how much of the dust can has filled up. In the Bolt-Iot we also can set the limit of the dust deposition. When ever the dust limit exceeds the threshold it will sends an alert SMS to the authority or the person in charge or the operator for cleaning the filter. The assembly unit of Bolt-IoT works together for the whole work.

Software Setup

The Arduino Code linked in below measures the distance using the Ultrasonic sensor and thereafter sends it to the Bolt Wi-Fi module over serial communication.

A Python Script (running on a server or your PC, for instance) queries the Bolt Cloud for this distance value using the Bolt Python Library, which in turn is based on the Bolt open APIs for Serial Read.

The Python script then checks if the distance is less than a preset threshold is too high in the filter. In case the dust is full in filter, an SMS alert is sent out using the Twillio SMS service.

Code

/*
* Ultrasonic Simple
* Prints the distance read by an ultrasonic sensor in
* centimeters. They are supported to four pins ultrasound
* sensors (liek HC-SC04) and three pins (like PING)))
* and Seeed Studio sesores).
*
* The circuit:
* * Module HR-SC04 (four pins) or PING))) (and other with
* three pins), attached to digital pins as follows:
* --------------------- ---------------------
* | HC-SC04 | Arduino | | 3 pins | Arduino |
* --------------------- ---------------------
* | Vcc | 5V | | Vcc | 5V |
* | Trig | 12 | OR | SIG | 13 |
* | Echo | 13 | | Gnd | GND |
* | Gnd | GND | ---------------------
* ---------------------
* Note: You need not obligatorily use the pins defined above
*
* By default, the distance returned by the distanceRead()
* method is in centimeters, to get the distance in inches,
* pass INC as a parameter.
* Example: ultrasonic.distanceRead(INC)
*/

#include <Ultrasonic.h>

/*
* Pass as a parameter the trigger and echo pin, respectively,
* or only the signal pin (for sensors 3 pins), like:
* Ultrasonic ultrasonic(13);
*/
 Ultrasonic ultrasonic(12, 13);

  void setup() {
    Serial.begin(9600);
   }
  Serial.println(ultrasonic.distanceRead());
  delay(1000);
   }

from boltiot import Bolt, Sms #Import Sms and Bolt class from boltiot library
import json, time

dust_full_limit = 5 # the distance between device and filter in chimney in cm

API_KEY = "your Bolt Cloud api key"
DEVICE_ID = "your device id"

# Credentials required to send SMS
SID = 'your twilio sid'
AUTH_TOKEN = 'your twilio auth token'
FROM_NUMBER = 'This is the no. generated by Twilio. You can find this on your Twilio Dashboard'
TO_NUMBER = 'This is your number. Make sure you are adding country code in the beginning'

mybolt = Bolt(API_KEY, DEVICE_ID) #Create object to fetch data
sms = Sms(SID, AUTH_TOKEN, TO_NUMBER, FROM_NUMBER) #Create object to send SMS
response = mybolt.serialRead('10')
print response

while True:
response = mybolt.serialRead('10') #Fetching the value from Arduino
data = json.loads(response)
garbage_value = data['value'].rstrip()
print "Garbage level is", garbage_value
if int(garbage_value) < garbage_full_limit:
response = sms.send_sms('Hello, i am full - Dust Alert')
time.sleep(200)

Credits

srikanta kumar dash

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Chimney Dust Alert System

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Story

Schematics

Hardware Setup

Dust Alert Circuit

Software Setup

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Dust Check Distance Code

Dust Alert Code

Credits

srikanta kumar dash

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Chimney Dust Alert System

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Schematics

Hardware Setup

Dust Alert Circuit

Software Setup

Code

Dust Check Distance Code

Dust Alert Code

Credits

srikanta kumar dash

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